Lockdown Omertà

Staten Island, April 2020. The city is shut, the streets are empty, and Dom Ferrante has been dead six months when a letter arrives from a bank in Buffalo: a $1.84 million pandemic loan, approved, in the Ferrante name. It lists Rhiannon Vale's license number. It lists Matteo as a director. And in a box on the second page, someone has written Matteo into Dom's place. Matteo has spent his whole life behind the wheel, not in the back seat. Now, with a heart that won't stop racing and a family that can't leave the house, he has to drive three hundred and sixty miles up an empty Thruway to find out who borrowed a dead man's name, and why. Beside him are the two women he would give anything for: Rhiannon, the forensic accountant whose career is on the line, and Sasha, the locksmith who can open any door except the one to her own fear. The trail leads to a frightened young man in Williamsville, an old crew in New Jersey and a capo who remembers exactly what Dom did to him in 1987. And while Giulia fights for breath in a hospital bed they aren't allowed to visit, Matteo has to decide what kind of man he is when Dom isn't there to tell him. A steamy, high-stakes romance of loyalty, lockdown and the names we carry. For adult readers only.